Indian Language Profile

Mother Tongues and Language Groups

India is a multilingual country with more than 121 languages being spoken by more than 10 thousand speakers. These 121 languages have a total of 270 distinct mother tongues as given in the table below. 17 of these mother tongues, including four of non-scheduled languages of India, have a speaker strength of more than 10 million and an additional 43 mother tongues with a speaker strength of more than a million.